From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Apr 18 13:17:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA20969 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 13:17:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from out1.ibm.net (out1.ibm.net [165.87.194.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA20960 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 20:17:06 GMT (envelope-from dwilde1@ibm.net) Received: from ibm.net (slip-32-100-79-237.ca.us.ibm.net [32.100.79.237]) by out1.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA80322; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 20:16:35 GMT Message-ID: <35390A05.16B5482E@ibm.net> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 13:16:05 -0700 From: Don Wilde Reply-To: dwilde1@ibm.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Remy NONNENMACHER CC: "Karl M. Joch" , "freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: salesman is thinking..... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Remy NONNENMACHER wrote: > > Writting GPL'ed software is democracy and freedom. Building a consistent GUI > federating independant software needs (dictature?) and constraints. > > Someone feeling OK for becoming the big chief ? I don't think we need or want to go in that direction. The idea is to create a port which loads a good starter system with some conservative specs, i.e., fvwm rather than fvwm2, 640x480, etc., and then runs a script which -- perhaps visibly -- configures the text files and explains what it's doing and why. The idea is that we only want to create a demo of ONE WAY you might set up a FreeBSD machine, and then lead them into the brave new world of changing it the FreeBSD way. If somebody wants to create a different demo system, let them! All I want to do is create that good first impression. I don't want to change the basic operation, because it's just what I need. I don't want GUI Admin tools as anything other than a port option. It would ruin the system to hook them into the core distribution! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message